Improvement in machines for making clothes-pins



' 4 .2Sheets--Sheet1. B. B. & A. J. OGKINGTON.

Mchines for Making CIothes-Pins. N0.145,587. Patented Dec.l6,1873.

2 Sheets--Sheet 2.

B. B. & A. J. OCKINGTON. Machines fur Making Clothes-Pins. NQ ]45j87 A Patented Dec161873.

Inventur:

bewa1 the points 0f ehe pins, LS m: l. m is zu aufs-oft saw in front 0f the feed-rollers, f0r autting oft the strips ab the rear end, so that there will be 110 excess 011 the last pin of eaeh strip, und the end of the next strip fed in Will come r ight f0r the firss pin. This smv is momd forward by the hand-lever u, and back by the spring p. 'lhe attendant W110 puts in 1:11e strips Will move t11e saw. A is the main driving-shafb. It drives the cubofl saw m by t-11e be1t B, the pinion G by the belt C, sha-fts D and E, 2u1d the bel F, the mzmdrel O by the belt H the cut-off saw by the belt I, and the slotting-saw by the be1t J.

H2wing thus described our invention, WG claim as new 2u1d desire t0 seeure by Lett@rs Patent l. 'lhe combination 0f the feeding-rollers A, turning-mandrel O, pressure-rollers R, cuooff saw Tcarryingwheel V, and slotting-smv W, substantially as specified.

2. The ca-m P and elbow-lever O combined with the wedge-moving slide M and the inter- 1nittingly-revohing feed-rollers, and arranged c0 cause the finishing-outter to acta wln'le the feed-rollers rast, substantially as specified.

3. The arrangement of oam P am]. elbowlever O relatively t0 the feedrollers, t0 allow the spring N t0 raise the finishing-eutter ofl' from the Work previous to the starting of the feed-rollers, substantially as specified.

4. Tl1e combination 0f the guides j With the slotting-saw, substantially as speoified.

BENJAMIN B. OOKINGTON. ANDREW J. OOKINGTON. Witnesses:

WM. O. FISK, CHARLES MAHURIN. 

